Bank-messenger&#39;s hand-bag.



B. GO LDSTEIN. BANK MESSENGERS HAND BAG. APPLICATION TILED AUG. 6, 1913.

1,090,393 Patented Mar. 17,1914.

HHIHIE more sea BENJAMIN GOLDSTEIN, 035 I lE'ii J' YUIRK, TM. "3!.

Application filed August To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, BENJAMIN GOLDSTEIN, a citizen of the United States, and residing at the Bronx, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Bank- Messengers .l-landBags, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it ap pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to hand bags used by bank messengers and others accustomed, at times, to carry large sums of money; and the object of the invention is to provide a bag of this class with a handle. in which is placed a gun or revolver that may he used at any time by the carrier of the bag-and which is fully concealed at all times.

The inventionis fully disclosedin the following specification of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my invention are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a side view of a hand bag provided with my improvement, the handle being in section ;-Fig. 2 a cross section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a similar section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

In the accompanying drawing, 1 have shown at a an ordinary handbag of the class usually employed by bank messengers and others accustomed to carry large sums of l'noney, and said bag is provided with a handle I) involving a central hollow casing b in which is placed an ordinary revolver or magazine gun 0.

One of the jaw members a of the hag is provided with keepers d with which the sides 6 of the handle I) are connected by means of link devices 6, in the form of construction shown, and the casing 5 of the handle is preferably composed of a box haped member forming the back, top and bottom of said casing, and a front side door 6 hinged at the bottom, as shown at o.

The gun 0 shown is of the ordinary hammerless revolver type, and is provided with a rotary magazine or cylinder 0 and with a trigger having the usual trigger guard 0*, One end of the casing 6 of the handle is also provided with an aperture 25 which is in direct line with the muzzle of the barrel of the gun when said gun is in position, and the central bottom portion of the casing; 5'9

of the handle is provided in the opposite Specification of Letters Patent.

; m as Lhasa at, ii' ida 6, 1913. Serial Ho. 263,259.

sides thereof with apertures 2:3 19 the latter being in the door h and the of the bag, at any time, may pass a finger through either of the apertures Zfl-Jfi, or both of them, so to operate the trigger (i and discharge the gun.

The door (3* is provided with an ordinary spring catch securing or locking device 6?, and when the gun is placed in position, the handle 0 bears on the back of the casing b at one end thereof and the door, when closed, bears on said handle, and the aids insecuring the gun in proper position. The top of the casing is also provided with a downwardly directed lug F) against which cylinder 0 passes, and the door 6* is provided with a pin j which bears on the said framework of the gun in front of the lug 25 The casing 25 of the handle it is als provided at g with a recess adapted to receive the front end of the barrel of thegnn,

backwardly directed pin 7' which hears on the barrel of the gun and holds it in the Itr. cess 9 when said door is closed, and this con struction, as will seen, holds the gun in operative position. all times with the muzzle thereof in line w h "With this construction operated by the carrier or the necessary, and my invention form, character, construction or method of operation of the gain, nor to any particular style of handle for the hag, or handle casing for containing the gun, and changes in and modifications of construction herein described may be made, within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of my intention or sacrificing its adraro gee, l

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nary construction,

mined position,

con rration the handie 03:

the frame worlr of the gun that incloses the and the door 6' is provided with another when closed, to hold thegun ina predeter 5'; being also provided with a door adapted,

ordinary construction, one end of said eas- In testimony that I claim the foregoing 10 ing being provided with an aperture adaptas my invention I have signed my name in ed to register with the bore of the gun, when presence of the subscribing witnesses this the latter is 111 position, and said casing .411] day of August 1913.

when closed, to hold the gun in a predeter- BENJAMIN GOLDSTEIN' I mined position, and the bottom of the'casing I \Vitnesses: being provided with means whereby the I VVILLiAM WEATHnRs'roN, trigger of the gun may be operated. C. MULREANY. 

